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Britain's Preserved Railways
Key Publishing LtdThe preserved heritage museum railways of Britain are thriving. Not only is there continuing nostalgia for the steam locomotives of a bygone era, b...
View full detailsHSTs: Around Britain 1990 to the Present Day
Key Publishing LtdHSTs: Around Britain, From 1990 to the Present Day For almost 50 years, High Speed Trains (HSTs) have been the mainstay for express services for ma...
View full detailsClass 50s
Key Publishing LtdClass 50s; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 36 During the mid-1960s, BR was looking to introduce a high-powered diesel loco to improve services on th...
View full detailsBritish Rail Shunters: From Corporate Blue to Sectorisation
Key Publishing LtdBritish Rail Shunters: From Corporate Blue to Sectorisation Britain’s Railways Series, Vol. 46 The role of British Rail’s (BR) diesel shunters was...
View full detailsClass 33s
Key Publishing LtdClass 33s; ; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol. 40 Author: Mark V. Pike Pages: 96pp In 1960, the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company built a...
View full detailsClass 66/0
Key Publishing LtdBritain’s Railways Series, Vol. 32 In the late 1990s, most of the current locomotives in use on the national network were becoming very tired and ...
View full detailsDevon's Railways
Key Publishing LtdDevon's Railways North and East of the County Britain's Railways Series, Volume 18 Following the routes of the two main lines that enter Devon from...
View full detailsClass 47s: Inverness to Newquay 1986-87
Key Publishing LtdClass 47s: Inverness to Newquay; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 38; In the mid-1980s, the winds of change were blowing through British Rail and oft...
View full detailsEast Coast Main Line Locomotive Haulage
Key Publishing LtdEast Coast Main Line Locomotive Haulage; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 37 The East Coast Main Line (ECML) runs from London King’s Cross to Edinbur...
View full detailsClass 37s
Key Publishing LtdClass 37s Britain s Railways Series, Vol 23 The English Electric Type 3 (later Class 37) was introduced from the late 1950s to the early 1960s at a...
View full detailsClass 47s: Jack Of Trades
Key Publishing LtdClass 47s: The Jack of All Trades; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol. 45 Authored By: Mark V. Pike; Pages: 96 In 1962, construction of the first Cla...
View full detailsClass 73s
Key Publishing LtdClass 73s Britain’s Railway Series, Vol 41 96 pages Authored by: Mark V. Pike Built in the 1960s, the Class 73s were primarily used on the Souther...
View full detailsClass 442: The Wessex Electrics
Key Publishing LtdClass 442s: The Wessex Electrics Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 27First introduced in the late 1980s, the Class 442s were like nothing that had bee...
View full detailsGrand Central
Key Publishing LtdBritain’s Railways Series, Vol 31 Grand Central is an innovative and pioneering railway open-access operator with a relatively short, but varied hi...
View full detailsBrush Type 4 to Class 47s - The First 20 Years
Key Publishing LtdBrush Type 4 to Class 47s: The First 20 Years; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 44 Authored By: Simon Lilley Pages: 96 It is now 60 years since the f...
View full detailsClass 66: 3/4/7/8
Key Publishing LtdClass 66: 3/4/7/8 - Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 35 In the late 1990s, English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS) had led the way with their Class...
View full detailsClass 66: 5/6/9
Key Publishing LtdClass 66: 5/6/9; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 39 In the late 1990s, English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) was having great success with its...
View full detailsBritish Rail Shunters: The Final Years
Key Publishing LtdBritish Rail Shunters: The Final Years Britain’s Railways Series, Vol. 52 By the beginning of the 1990s, the variety that had once characterised Br...
View full detailsBR: From Green to Blue
Key Publishing LtdBR: From Green to Blue Book Britain's Railways Series: Volume 4 A fascinating but much overlooked era for the modern traction enthusiast is the cha...
View full detailsClass 56 and 58
Key Publishing LtdClass 56s and 58s Britain's Railways Series, Vol. 54 Designed specifically for heavy freight operations in the UK, British Rail’s Class 56 was int...
View full detailsElectrostar: Capital Commuter
Key Publishing LtdElectrostar: Capital Commuter; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 48 At the turn of the millennium, a large percentage of the passenger services around...
View full detailsClass 31s
Key Publishing LtdClass 31s; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol. 50 Perhaps overshadowed by more ‘exotic’ locos, the Class 31s nonetheless played a significant part in ...
View full detailsHSTs: The Western Region
Key Publishing LtdHSTs: The Western Region Britain s Railways Series: Volume 12 Although in the late 1970s they were frowned upon by many for replacing a number of l...
View full detailsClass 57s
Key Publishing LtdClass 57s Britain’s Railways Series, Vol. 53 The Class 57 diesel locomotive was an outgrowth of the tremendously successful and iconic Class 47. Re...
View full detailsBritish Multiple Units
Key Publishing LtdBritish Multiple Units Britain s Railways Series: Volume 13 Multiple units are the unsung heroes of the modern railway system. Their many advantage...
View full detailsHighland Railways
Key Publishing LtdHighland Railways Britain's Railway Series, Volume 19 Set against a backdrop of Scotland s Highlands, this book illustrates the area s fascinating ...
View full detailsGerman Railways: 30 years after Re-unification
Key Publishing LtdGermany s Railways: 30 years after Re-unification The World s Railways Series, Volume 3 Germany was re-unified in 1990. For the country s rail syst...
View full detailsClass 68s
Key Publishing LtdClass 68s Britain’s Railways Series, Vol. 51 In 2009, Direct Rail Services (DRS) ordered a small fleet of locos designed to remain in service until...
View full detailsClass 60s
Key Publishing LtdClass 60s Britain's Railways Series, Volume 17 The Class 60 was the last truly British-built diesel locomotive design and 100 in total went to Rail...
View full detailsClass 59s
Key Publishing LtdClass 59sIn the mid-1980s, one of British Rail’s major customers of heavy block trains, Foster Yeoman, suggested the unusual arrangement of running...
View full detailsClass 67s
Key Publishing LtdClass 67sBritain’s Railways Series, Vol 30; In the late 1990s, English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) ordered a large fleet of 250 Class 66 lo...
View full detailsHeritage DMUs: The Final Years
Key Publishing LtdHeritage DMUs The Final Years; ; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol. 49 At the beginning of the privatisation era of Britain’s railways, there was a pa...
View full detailsClass 159s: 30 Years' Service
Key Publishing LtdClass 159s: 30 Years’ Service; Mark V. Pike; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 47 By the late 1980s, the Class 50 and Class 47 locomotives working Net...
View full detailsCanadian Pacific in the Rockies
Key Publishing LtdCanadian Pacific in the Rockies The Canadian Pacific Railway was built to unite all the Canadian Provinces with a transcontinental line running fro...
View full detailsClass 47s: 1985-86 Inverness to Dover
Key Publishing LtdClass 47s Inverness to Dover Western Docks, 1985 86 Britain s Railways Series, Volume 22 This was a period of change, as the first Class 47s to be ...
View full detailsCzech and Slovak Railways
Key Publishing LtdCzech and Slovak Railways: Three Decades of Change, 1990 2020s World Railways Series, Volume 2 The Czech Republic and Slovakia emerged as independe...
View full detailsCornish Railways: St Austell to Penzance
Key Publishing LtdCornish Railways: St Austell to Penzance Britain's Railways Series: Volume 6 This, the second of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, fol...
View full detailsCLASS 47s: From Inverness to Penzance 1982-85
Key Publishing LtdClass 47s: From Inverness to Penzance, 1982 -85 Book Britain's Railways Series: Volume 5 The Class 47 diesel locomotives were a mainstay of British...
View full detailsCornish Railways
Key Publishing LtdCornish Railways Book Britain's Railways Series: Volume 3 This, the first of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, follows the railway thr...
View full detailsDiesels in East Yorkshire
Key Publishing LtdDiesels in East Yorkshire Britain's Railway Series: Volume 11 This photographic journey illustrates East Yorkshire s fascinating passenger and frei...
View full detailsClass 70s
Key Publishing LtdClass 70s Britain s Railways Series, Volume 16 In the late 2000s, Freightliner was looking to expand its locomotive fleet towards more powerful and...
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